My understanding was different from what is quoted below. 'delimited' can always be terminated by the end of the data or the end of an enclosing known-length element. Without that rule, the simplest scenario involving an infix delimiter will not work correctly ( or will force the user to set lengthKind='endOfParent' on the final group member, which would be very unintuitive ).

There is a difference between endOfParent and delimited though. Delimited is not allowed when representation='binary'. 'endOfParent' is.

regards,

Tim Kimber, Common Transformation Team,
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[DFDL-WG] dfdl:lentgKind= 'delimited' and 'endOfParent'



Since we extended the meaning of dfdl:lengthKind= 'delimited' to include  

'delimited' means the item is delimited by the item’s terminator (if specified) or an enclosing construct’s separator or the end of the enclosing construct designated by its known length or its terminator.

the only difference with dfdl:lentghKind='endOfParent' is that  the latter includes the 'end of the data stream'.

We should either

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